If a person has to retype it, it’s costing you time, money, and accuracy.
Engine hours, odometer readings, and fuel consumption are some of the most important numbers in your shop. They’re also some of the easiest to get wrong by hand. Multiply that across hundreds of trucks and machines on multiple jobsites, and small errors become missed services, shaky job costs, and equipment that isn’t where you thought it was.
That’s why we’ve added Motive to our HCSS Marketplace. Vehicle and asset data from Motive’s platform now flows straight into HCSS Fleet, so your shop and operations teams work from the same numbers without the manual steps.
“The integration with Motive automatically brings critical vehicle and equipment data into HCSS Fleet, giving teams accurate hours, miles, and preventive maintenance triggers without the manual work. It’s about improved job costing and turning connected assets into better decisions.”
– Phil Robinson, Group Product Manager, HCSS Fleet
Who Is Motive?
Motive is the AI platform for physical operations, improving the safety, productivity, and profitability of the world’s leading organizations. Nearly 100,000 organizations use it across construction and the physical economy.
What sets Motive apart is how this solution unifies safety, operations, and finance in a single, integrated platform. That’s right, fleets can manage drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet-related spend in one integrated system. They can also eliminate data silos by pulling data from across their operations into a single source of truth.
For contractors, the draw is visibility. Motive helps you track trends and measure KPIs across your organization without switching systems, turning that data into insights you can use to improve safety, optimize operations, manage your workforce, and control costs. With more than 200 features delivered each year, the platform continues to add value.
What Does the Motive Integration Do for HCSS Users?
With Motive feeding data directly into HCSS Fleet, the telematics data you already collect lands where your shop and operations teams already work. Below are just a few of the key benefits!
Automated engine hours and mileage tracking: Eliminate manual meter entries. Motive data automatically “trues up” equipment hours in HCSS, giving you precise data for job costing and preventive maintenance.
Unified mixed-fleet visibility: See Motive-equipped vehicles and assets alongside your OEM assets and HCSS-tracked equipment on a single, unified map.
Better maintenance decisions: More timely usage data helps your team schedule service based on actual utilization and spot assets that may need attention sooner.
Improved fleet utilization: Operations leaders can use location and asset data to understand where equipment is, how it’s being used, and whether it’s available for work.
Improved business reporting: Fleet managers can review activity, maintenance needs, and operational trends from a more consistent data source.
“Contractors run on equipment, and Motive gives them accurate, real-time data on every asset they own,” said Jeet Chitgopker, Senior Director, Partner & Ecosystem Engineering, Motive. “With Motive connected to HCSS Fleet, that data goes straight to the teams making maintenance and utilization decisions, with automatic hours, miles, and preventive maintenance triggers, so they can keep machines working and jobs on schedule.”
Motive and the HCSS Platform
Powerful integrations mean you don’t have to duct-tape systems together to make them work.
Your Motive data lives inside the HCSS platform, right alongside your estimating, field data, and full fleet operations. Maintenance teams won’t have to log into a separate portal to find hours, and your operations team no longer has to wonder whether the numbers match. This equates to one connected workflow that reflects how your operation actually runs.
How to Set Up the HCSS Fleet and Motive Integration
The HCSS and Motive integration is available to all customers. To get started with setup, open the OEM Providers tab in HCSS Fleet | Telematics, or go through the HCSS tile on Motive’s App Marketplace.
If you’re ready to see how this works in your own workflows, request a demo. One of our product experts will carefully walk you through how Motive data flows into HCSS Fleet, how it supports maintenance and utilization decisions, and how it connects back to your jobs without extra spreadsheets.
